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i was low level formatting all my hdds and swaping an os from one hdd to another one night
i used norton ghost and powermax 4.6.1 i think it was
i switched the os from the 30 gig to the reciently lowleveled, fdisked, and formatted 12 gig hdd and that went fine then i restarted after removing the 12 and 6 gig hdds and i was going to do the same to the 30 after i lowleveled that to, i rebooted my computer with the boot disk in the drive and it froze on the boot splash screen, it was reading the floppy and when i pulled the disk out it still was, i couldnt even get to thebios setup screen. and i noticed that when i pluged it in it would boot up instantly and it would never do this so i flashed my bios and set it back to orginal settings and still nothing, lately my processor has been overheating because my cooling fan wasnt running right or something would that hav cause this or is my bios over the hill?

Question #2
I hav a gateway solo 9300 laptop
specs:
224 megs of ram
500 mhz P3
8meg video ati range mobility
ess sound ard (not sure what)
2 pcmcia 1,2,3 slots
os redhat 9 shrikie
I hav a D-link airplus dwl-650+ wireless card and rh9 doesnt hav the drivers fo my card and the ones that it has similar wont work
i hav the windows drivers for them but i dont no if i can get them to work on linux (mostlikely not) so if someone could dive me a link to ware i could get some that would be great, ifnot i will go out and buy a new a,b,g wifi card (anything for linux jimmy rigging and duct tape wil not surfice if u no what i mean)

One last question
is there an emulator or a program that will make some if not all windows programs work on linux hopefuly for free if not il buy one i remember the screen savers on tech tv hav something about that on there site but i couldnt find what they were talking about

If your processor had been overheating there might be some chance that you might of ruined it. Do you hear any beeps when you turn on the computer? If you have a spare processor lying around you might try switching it out.

One other thing. You might try putting the floppy in another computer and running a AV on it. If the computer froze after it read the floppy there might of been a virus on there.

im cheap and i only get $14 allowance each week from dad so i cant buy vmware and i dont no linux for s**t so i cant get wine to work and im all out of ideas if u could give me a list of what i need to dl from wine and what i hav to type to get them running that would be great and im currently saving all my cash for some linux manuels and programming manuels so i wont need so much help soon just stick with me thanx all